Gary Lineker has claimed that Marcus Rashford would not face the same criticism that has dogged the Manchester United star throughout his career if he was a white player.
Rashford broke into the United first team as a prodigious teenage talent just under a decade ago, and has since made a titanic 426 appearances for the Red Devils.
But the last two years have seen Rashford undergo an uneven spell of form, where the player has shown flashes of brilliance but fail to string together a prolonged purple patch.
Against the backdrop of up-and-down performances, Rashford has come under scrutiny from both fans and pundits for incidents where the player has been seen to have shifted his focus from football - even if temporarily.